NFL 2014 Officiating Roster
Sept 24, 2012; Seattle, WA, USA; Referee Wayne Elliott (28) speaks with field judge Richard Simmons (102) before making a ruling on a call between the Green Bay Packers and Seattle Seahawks during the fourth quarter at CenturyLink Field. Mandatory Credit: Joe Nicholson-USA TODAY Sports
Whether you love them or hate them, the NFL referees are one of the NFL’s most valuable personnel. As we saw during the 2012 Packers-Seahawks match-up, quality referees are vital to the NFL’s success. Today, the NFL league office released the 2014 Officiating Roster. You can check the full manuscript out here, however because it’s nearly five pages long, I will give you the basic summary of the document and the implications for the NFL season.
Some important notes from the NFL’s press release are: “The NFL roster of game officials for the 2014 season will include 13 first-year NFL officials – and three new referees – among the group of 119, the league announced today.” As well, “Our first-year officials were all among the best in college football, including Brad Allen, one of our new referees,” said NFL Vice President of Officiating Dean Blandino. “Brad was an outstanding referee for many years in the ACC and we are excited about having him on the field. Ron and Craig have proven to be outstanding NFL officials and they also are ready to assume the referee position.” Most importantly though, “First-year official Brad Allen will join the NFL as a referee from the Atlantic Coast Conference, where he has been a referee for the past nine seasons and was regarded as one of the best in college football. Allen has refereed several major bowl games, including the 2012 Rose Bowl and 2014 Sugar Bowl. Allen replaces veteran referee Mike Carey, who will join CBS Sports as a rules analyst. Veteran NFL officials Ronald Torbert and Craid Wrolstad are also new referees in 2014, replacing retired referees Scott Green and Ron Winter. Wrolstad has spent the past 11 seasons as a field judge while Torbert has worked the past four as a side judge.”
What’s even more interesting is the addition of two FEMALE referees. According to the NFL, “joining the 119 NFL officials on the field this summer will be the 21 officials at the most advanced level of the Officiating Development Program. That group will officiate a preseason game as part of an NFL officiating crew in August and includes two females, Sarah Thomas, a line judge who returns to the program for a second year, and Maia Chaka, a head linesman in her first year in the NFL program. Both Thomas and Chaka officiated in Conference USA in 2013.”
Seeing the presence of two potential NFL referees who are women will be a refreshing change of pace from the usual Ed Hochuli and his abnormally large biceps. What’s even better though is that the NFL actually has a program in place to properly train former college referees and turn them into competent NFL refs.
If you didn’t understand that information, I have provided a some charts down here which describe the current referee situation perfectly.
Here are the new referees and their information.
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Here are the referees in training and their information, too.
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As well, here are the regular returning referees, their numbers and their positions.
122 Brad Allen U
20 Barry Anderson FJ
66 Walt Anderson R
108 Gary Arthur LJ
72 Michael Banks SJ
56 Allen Baynes SJ
59 Rusty Baynes LJ
32 Jeff Bergman LJ
91 Jerry Bergman HL
34 Clete Blakeman R
23 Jerome Boger R
18 Byron Boston LJ
74 Derick Bowers HL
98 Greg Bradley HL
31 Chad Brown U
43 Terry Brown FJ
11 Fred Bryan U
86 Jimmy Buchanan FJ
94 Mike Carey R
60 Gary Cavaletto FJ
41 Boris Cheek FJ
51 Carl Cheffers R
95 James Coleman SJ
65 Walt Coleman R
99 Tony Corrente R
58 Jimmy DeBell SJ
6 Kirk Dornan BJ
27 Lee Dyer BJ
3 Scott Edwards FJ
81 Roy Ellison U
61 Keith Ferguson BJ
64 Dan Ferrell U
71 Ruben Fowler U
88 Brad Freeman FJ
133 Steve Freeman BJ
80 Greg Gautreaux FJ
103 Eugene Hall FJ
49 Richard Hall U
40 Butch Hannah U
125 Laird Hayes SJ
54 George Hayward HL
93 Scott Helverson BJ
29 Adrian Hill FJ
97 Tom Hill SJ
28 Mark Hittner HL
85 Ed Hochuli R
83 Shawn Hochuli SJ
82 Buddy Horton FJ
37 Jim Howey FJ
35 John Hussey LJ
76 Darrell Jenkins U
117 John Jenkins FJ
101 Carl Johnson LJ
55 Alex Kemp SJ
121 Paul King U
21 Jeff Lamberth SJ
73 Joe Larrew SJ
127 Bill Leavy R
130 Darryll Lewis LJ
89 Jon Lucivansky FJ
106 Wayne Mackie HL
10 Julian Mapp HL
107 Ron Marinucci LJ
39 Rich Martinez BJ
77 Terry McAulay R
5 John McGrath HL
8 Dana McKenzie HL
110 Philip McKinnely HL
48 Jim Mello HL
118 Dave Meslow FJ
78 Greg Meyer SJ
115 Tony Michalek U
111 Terrence Miles BJ
135 Peter Morelli R
92 Bryan Neale U
1 Scott Novak SJ
124 Carl Paganelli U
105 Dino Paganelli BJ
46 Perry Paganelli BJ
132 John Parry R
17 Steve Patrick BJ
15 Rick Patterson SJ
79 Kent Payne HL
9 Mark Perlman
47 Tim Podraza LJ
109 Dyrol Prioleau FJ
30 Todd Prukop BJ
63 Jim Quirk BJ
44 Jeff Rice U
67 Doug Rosenbaum FJ
129 Bill Schuster U
45 Jeff Seeman LJ
104 Dale Shaw BJ
90 Mike Spanier LJ
24 Tom Stabile HL
12 Greg Steed BJ
84 Mark Steinkerchner
22 Steve Stelljes HL
68 Tom Stephan LJ
114 Gene Steratore R
112 Tony Steratore BJ
102 Bruce Stritesky U
100 Tom Symonette LJ
62 Ronald Torbert R
42 Jeff Triplette R
13 Patrick Turner HL
75 Rob Vernatchi SJ
36 Tony Veteri HL
52 Bill Vinovich R
25 Bob Waggoner FJ
123 Ed Walker LJ
96 Undrey Wash U
7 Keith Washington SJ
116 Mike Weatherford SJ
119 Greg Wilson BJ
4 Craig Wrolstad R
38 Greg Yette BJ
33 Steve Zimmer FJ